1-7-11 WikiLeaks: the latest developments (Simon Jeffery/The Guardian)

[bobthedrummer]

Check out the 12:30 pm entry-from July 1990, former US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie's memo to Saddam Hussein, just before he invaded Kuwait--which everyone thought had been published...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/07/the-us-embassy-cables

[EFerrari]

1. US government requests tweets of Icelandic MP:

birgittaj Birgitta Jónsdóttir
by ggreenwald
usa government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. do they realize i am a member of parliament in iceland?
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir
birgittaj Birgitta Jónsdóttir
by ggreenwald
just got this: Twitter has received legal process requesting information regarding your Twitter account in (relation to wikileaks)
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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. She's should be tried for treason and unAmerican activities.

[Electric Monk]

5. You're being facetious?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Obviously, I hope.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[mod mom]

4. glad to be # 5!

[Luminous Animal]

7. It is interesting to compare the transcript of the meeting that NY Times received...

and Ms. Glaspie's interpretation.

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html

[LiberalAndProud]

8. Gilbert Cranberg had a copy of this cable in November, 1991.

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=1305
Unfortunately for Glaspie, she had cabled to the State Department a secret account of her conversation with Hussein. The cable, a copy of which I have obtained, includes the ambassador's report of what she told Hussein about Diane Sawyer and the U.S. press. This is the 22nd paragraph of Glaspie's cable:

http://www.kadaitcha.com/2011/01/03/april-glaspies-toxic-green-light-unearthed-thanks-wikileaks/
¶22. AMBASSADOR RESUMED HER THEME, RECALLING THAT
THE PRESIDENT HAD INSTRUCTED HER TO BROADEN AND
DEEPEN OUR RELATIONS WITH IRAQ. SADDAM HAD REFERRED
TO “SOME CIRCLES” ANTIPATHETIC TO THAT AIM. SUCH
CIRCLES CERTAINLY EXISTED, BUT THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION
IS INSTRUCTED BY THE PRESIDENT. ON THE OTHER HAND,
THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT CONTROL THE AMERICAN PRESS;
IF HE DID, CRITICISM OF THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD NOT
EXIST. SADDAM AGAIN INTERRUPTED TO SAY HE UNDERSTOOD
THAT. THE AMBASSADOR SAID SHE HAD SEEN THE DIANE
SAWYER SHOW AND THOUGHT THAT IT WAS CHEP AND UNFAIR.
BUT THE AMERICAN PRESS TREATS ALL POLITICIANS
WITHOUT KID GLOVES–THAT IS OUR WAY.

¶30. NOTE: ON THE BORDER QUESTION, SADDAM REFERRED
TO THE 1961 AGREEMENT AND A “LINE OF PATROL” IT
HAD ESTABLISHED. THE KUWAITIS, HE SAID, HAD TOLD
MUBARAK IRAQ WAS 20 KILOMETERS “IN FRONT” OF THIS
LINE. THE AMBASSADOR SAID THAT SHE HAD SERVED IN
KUWAIT 20 YEARS BEFORE; THEN, AS NOW, WE TOOK NO
POSITION ON THESE ARAB AFFAIRS.

[Solly Mack]

9. k/r